All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.